(a) Definition. A technical failure is deemed to have occurred when the Court’s ECF site
cannot accept filings continuously or intermittently over the course of any period of time
greater than one hour after 12:00 p.m. (noon) on a given day. Known system outages
will be posted on the Court’s website, if possible.
(b) Filing Options. A Filing User experiencing a technical failure may conventionally file
the document or send the PDF document to an email address set up by the Court, if it is
accompanied by a declaration attesting to the Filing User’s attempts to timely file the
document using ECF.
(c) Relief. A Filing User whose filing is made untimely as the result of a technical failure of
the Court’s ECF site may seek appropriate relief from the Court.
(d) Filing User System Failure. Problems on the Filing User’s end, such as connection
problems, problems with the Filing User’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), or hardware or
software problems, will not constitute a technical failure under LR Gen 311(a) nor excuse
an untimely filing. However, the Filing User may conventionally file the document or
send the PDF document to an email address set up by the Court, if it is accompanied by a
declaration attesting to the Filing User’s attempts to timely file the document using ECF.
Effective 1/3/11: Rule added.
U.S. DISTRICT COURT LOCAL RULES – GENERAL/ATTORNEY RULES
